Could a signal from another world have been kept secret for 40 years? Navigate a strange 3D database and work with other players to piece together what happened. Discuss your way through fragments of found footage films, journals and documentary clips about space.

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The story

Players collaborate with each other to explore, investigate and discuss the fragments of information they collect on their journey through the dataworld, writing the story themselves of a young scientist, Kathleen Petersen, who risks her sanity and betrays her father to save humanity from itself.

Kathleen is forced to choose between loyalty to her father or to betray him and everything she has believed to be true. Her decision will not only determine the Petersen Institute's future, it will impact all of humanity itself.

Was Kathleen's mother Murdered?

Is Kathleen Going Mad?

What Is the Signal?

Features

Experience a unique ”found footage” story that combines emails, photographs, maps, diagrams, fiction film, electronic music and documentary films from the European Space Agency into one coherent story.

Navigate surreal 3D levels between the parts of the story.

Piece together a fragmented story with more 150 story fragments spread over 10 unique levels.

Cooperative multiplayer: analyse & discuss the content with other players to understand what happened.

Gains access to locked parts of the story by evaluating other players’ theories.

Evaluate other players’ explanations; upvote the good, downvote the bad.

Make up your own mind: present your theories to other players and get their feedback.